Zachary Vankeuren bet 3,000 on a flop of 10♠K♦4♥. His opponent called in the cutoff.
The turn was the 8♥. The cutoff bet 6,000 and Vankeuren called.
The river came the A♥. The cutoff jammed and Vankeuren snapped him off and tabled the K♥Q♥ flush which crushed the 4x4x set of his busted opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
137,000 |
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
Three players were in a hand on the river on a board of 2♥10♥8♦6♦9♣. The pot had around 40,000 in it and Chiho Lee moved the rest of his 9,400 chips in.
One player folded and Kevin Zhao quickly called.
Lee tabled the 2♠2♦ for a set to win the pot and stay alive while Zhao's hand was quickly discarded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
74,000
74,000
|
74,000 |
Action went check-check on the turn on a board showing 8♠3♥9♠7♠ between Santiago Plante and Xuan Vu.
The river was a fourth spade with the 4♠. Plante bet 7,000 from middle position into the pot of about 22,000. Vu waited a moment before he jammed fro the button.
Plante folded after about 30 seconds.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
39,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
|
22,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
Caesars Entertainment has announced that they will be selling the iconic World Series of Poker brand to NSUS Group Inc, a leading investment group and operator of leading online poker room GGPoker.
The deal is set to be worth $500 million — $250 million in cash and a $250 million promissory note "due five years after the transaction's closing date", according to the press release.
The sale comes off the back of the largest WSOP Main Event in history and less than four months before the return of WSOP Paradise to the Bahamas.
Level: 8
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 1,200
On a flop of A♣6♥10♥, Jean Louis Arseneau was in the small blind and called a bet of 3,500 from his big blind opponent.
The turn was the 5♣. Arseneau bet 8,800 which got a fold from his opponent as he took the pot to build his stack back up after it had taken a dip since the heights of his earlier big stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
128,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
Zachary Vankeuren was spotted in action in Level 7 of the Main Event. He bet 2,500 on a flop of Q♣4♥A♥ into two opponents.
Both of his opponents folded which allowed Vankeuren to take the chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
49,000
49,000
|
49,000 |
Level: 7
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 1,000
The Day 1c field is up to 571 at the second 15-minute break of the day.
